Denise Cusack is a clinical herbalist, certified aromatherapist, and a certified permaculture designer, with over 20 years of experience in the natural health and wellness community. Denise has a passion for sustainability, community building, plant conservation, mutual aid, art, regenerative practices, seed saving, and collaborative environments.  Denise loves teaching people how to grow their own food and medicine using permaculture and regenerative practices. 

Denise has volunteered with Herbalists Without Borders since 2017, integrating herbalism, aromatherapy, community service, mutual aid, and regenerative permaculture practices into community outreach and serving the underserved.She also manages the HWB US Donation Distribution Network, grows herbs for free clinics, and is the Editor of Without Borders Magazine. She sits on the board of Herbalists Without Borders and Lilium Initiative. 

In her spare time, Denise grows hundreds of varieties medicinal herbs and food plants at her family home, Wholly Rooted Permaculture Education and Regenerative Herb Farm (a UpS Botanical Sanctuary), stewards at-risk medicinals, spends time with her amazing family, bakes bread from scratch, digs in the dirt, sings loudly, creates a lot of art, and is always working in the garden.